RATCLIFFE-on-TRENT, a parish in the southern division of the wapentake of BINGHAM, county of NOTTINGHAM, 5 miles (E. by S.) from Nottingham, containing 993 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £4. 12. 6., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Earl Manvers. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, was rebuilt about 1793, prior to which the spire that surmounted the tower fell down, and has not been replaced. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The river Trent runs through the parish, and is fordable in two places. There is a wharf belonging to Earl Manvers, chiefly used for coal, at which the freeholders of Ratcliffe are allowed to land their goods wharfage free; the manufacture of hosiery is carried on here. Near the village is a perpendicular cliff of red clay, from which the parish took its name.